Enchanted Handwraps for Luciouss Numonis

[Krozog]

I mainly want smite and preferably two-fisted if possible. Luscious Numonis is still in the works, but mostly complete. I'd be spending my upcoming signature item on the handwraps for him. He is an unarmed fighter, so the wraps are technically not weapons if it matters.

Claws of Mizuchi (Rhino-Buffalo Leather Handwraps; Enchanted Signature Item)
During his travels, Lucious stumbled upon the Japanese enchanter Tsuchiya Rika. While trekking through the wilds with instructions from Raijin, he found her climbing up a tree to escape some Rhino-Buffalo. He bore her no ill will and was always up for a fight, so he dispatched the creatures beneath Rika.
Initially terrified, she threatened him, calling him "Raijū," and demanding that he leave her in peace. Stubborn, Lucious sat down and made camp for the day and night and refused to leave until she came down. Once the matter was settled, he discovered that Raijū could be taken to roughly mean lightning wolf - and it stuck with him.
As a reward for saving her, Rika agreed to make Raijū a powerful magical item if he would accompany her to safety. She cut strips of Rhino-Buffalo hide off the corpses and fashioned for him a pair of hand wraps to augment his fighting style. She imbued them with various enchantments during the journey. By the journey's end, Raijū had gained a new friend and a powerful item - the Claws of Mizuchi.

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• Type of Item: Strips of Rhino-Buffalo leather
• Enchantments (Two Major, Two Minor): Smite, Two-Fisted Edge, +1 Fighting, +1 Fighting
• P.P.E.: 10
• Trait: Fighting
• Trappings: Self-only, activates with a Fighting action, Water pressure drills into target dealing additional damage/Mega: Standard

[Freemage]

Note that you'll still want to pick up Ambidextrous for yourself to take full advantage of Two-Weapon Fighting.

Either Fighting or Parry could make sense on these, I think, depending on whether they're designed to help with blocks or punches. So that's player's call, pretty much.

Smite activated by Fighting, so long as the GM approves the Water Trapping you've set, should be fine.

I vote Approved.

[Krozog]

I think they’re designed more for fighting than defending, so I removed the parry question. Also left fighting only for the activation. GM is ok with the Water we’re working on the mechanic.

[Venatus Vinco]

Approved

[Ndreare]

Approved, for Savage Rifts.

[Pursuit]

Not that you need it at this point, but approved anyway. I like the concept.

[Krozog]

Had some discussion in group with gm - this is what the power looks like right now. How does it look? Leaving any mechanical effects subject to case by case basis. Only caveat is the self only trapping instead of touch on standard, and reducing standard cost by 1 ppe to compensate for it then increasing it by 1 for the activation with another action. How does this look?

To give some description to the idea behind the smite, this is how I envision it: equipping the handwraps basically encase the wearers hands in a coating of water. The smite can be activated by attacking, Burning through some PPE for the water coating to become “active.” Any time the wearer strikes an enemy, the water forcibly punctures through whatever is struck. (The idea behind this is how water under enough pressure can cut through steel - this is an actual industrial thing that sees real life use.)

I’m open to suggestions - but I think the standard use should stay self only.

Water Drill (Smite; 2 PPE) [Novice]
Range: Self
Duration: 3(1/round)
Trapping: Water - High Pressure; Activates on Fighting action

• The Japanese enchanter Tsuchiya Rika traveled with Raijū for a time after he saved her from an unexpected encounter with rhino-buffalo. She rewarded him with a pair of sturdy rhino-buffalo handwraps to augment his fighting style. They create a coating of water around Raijū's hands, and upon connecting with an attack, the water is thrust into the target forcibly enough to puncture through most materials.

Effect: +2/+4 Damage
Weapon Enhancement (Greater Smite; 4 PPE)
Range: Touch
Duration 3(1/round)
Trapping: Special

• If enough juice is used, Raijū can force the handwraps to operate in completely different ways or even impart their enchantment upon another weapon

Effect: +4/+8 Mega Damage and choose any Trapping.

[Pender Lumkiss]

Looks good to me.

[Tribe of One]

Approved.

[Freemage]

Technically, there's no cost to activate a Power using another skill. (There's a huge build cost for it, but once it's in there, you just have to spend the usual PPE before making the roll.) OTOH, "Self only" in that case becomes a function of the fact that you're rolling Fighting to activate it. So I'd say it's a wash, regardless.

In any case, I still approve.

[Krozog]

True, Freemage, I didn’t consider that. Lol!

Hey, buddy, stay right there I’m going to Smite you! “Punch”!

Oops...I was supposed to punch your weapon. “Punch!” OW, my hand!!!

On a more serious note, would I be able to cast mega smite as not self only / as a fighting actions? Or would
It be bound by the same rules as the standard version?

[Snake Eyes]

I think your original build was more advantageous, uses the skill you want, and gives you the MD you were looking for on the base spell. No sense in getting into the weeds on what trait/skill to use to activate when they're for punching. We pretty much have a consensus, so I'll remain on the right side of history. Original submission approved, if you prefer it.

[Krozog]

After thinking on it with permission to use either, I'm going to go with the second edition I posted today, and not the original. I think this item is finished now?

Edit: I updated the original post to reflect the changes.

[Snake Eyes]

Yep. Item's finished. Wrapped up, if you will. Make sure this version is on your sheet. It'll be moved to the Approved Items list soon-ish.